ALDA is more and more engaged in the promotion of volunteering, targeting primarily the younger generations in order to foster their active citizenship and their sense of belonging both to the local community and to Europe.

ALDA will participate at the closing conference of the European Year of Volunteering 2011 that will take place on 1 and 2 December 2011 in Warsaw.

Coalition of Youth Organisations – SEGA in cooperation with Europe House of Caen (France) organise a seminar on “European priorities and local youth needs in the youth field.” in the hotel Sirius – Strumica

“Get involved. Participate for Europe and your Town” is the claim of INTACT Project Summer School that will take place in Strasbourg from Wednesday 20th to Saturday 23rd, 2011.

On 17 June, the programme France-Balkans held their workshop on Youth aimed at further discussing the project submitted to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Regional Council of Auvergne.

LDA Central and Southern Serbia, in cooperation with NGO AssociaçãoMaisCidadania from Portugal started the new European voluntary service project “Share yourself” in order to promote volunteering experiences

Macedonian and French experts will host two day seminar on June 14 and 15 in Prilep, Macedonia. The participants and organizers will discuss the methodology, expectations and practices in youth information and policy as well as local realities and implementation.

The FFRM representatives, among who are the two dairy producers and a producer of apples, will spend 10 days in France to visit several farms.

The Macedonian delegation will be hosted from 4 to 6 April 2011 as a team of the Centre for Information and advice for the youth of Prilep, together with city representatives from Stip and Strumica interested in activities in this field.

In March 2011, LDACSS started to implement the project “Youth Cultural Club”, supported at the public tender of the city of Nis Council for Cultural Creativity in 2010.

In cooperation with the The Franco-German Youth Office OFAJ and memorial centresOradur-sur-Glane in France and Dachau in Germany, LDA CSS implemented three cycle seminar entitled “War and Propaganda: An Approach to History in Europe”.